Yearly Archives: 2008

GameMasters/GameSages Win Over World of Kung Fu Players

[Shanghai, March 11, 2008] The World of Kung Fu (WoKF) GameMasters and GameSages offer the best in-game support of any of the current crop of MMORPGs, so say the members of the WoKF forums. In WoKF there is a special GM channel in which you can call a GM for help. Any GM on duty will reply to you in a short time by private chat. They will answer all questions about the game including those about quests, items, monsters, as well as basic information about the game and forums. The GSs are made up of veteran players picked by the GM team when the game was still in Closed Beta.  They are ready, willing, and able to offer help and advice that can only be acquired from long experience in the game.  With their rich experience, they can be very helpful to new players.  Both the GM and GS teams are noted for their efficient and warm-hearted service.

Unlike the GMs found in other MMORPGs, the GMs/GSs in WoKF are very visible and active in towns and popular leveling areas to provide support, deal with bugs, and ban bots. They also hold interesting events that add flavor to the game. Sometimes they act like Santa Claus giving gifts, other times they summon unique monsters for players to raid. They are really like living NPCs, providing a unique and positive game experience for all WoKF players.

Sweet Dream, Sweet Dreamland

Sweet Dream, Sweet Dreamland

As Elf Online (http://elf.happymmo.com/) growing from green to become accepted by more and more people, thanks should firstly go to all players who back up with their passion and participation. At this very occasion, a thread from an fan will be sincerely introduce to the public here for its genuine feeling to and sweet memory in Elf Online (http://elf.happymmo.com/).

Along with the sweet dream melody, grains of sunflower seeds driven by the breeze, then a storyline of love happened in Elf Online illustrated by dribs and drabs with the thinking. It’s going to be another day with sunshine. I remember clearly the live reunion when we watched the rainbow in Illusion Island, the vivid togetherness when we lay upon the flower fascicle to appreciate the waterfall in East Carefree Village, the solemn and holy experience when we go to Towel of Babel and more impressively, the fierce test when we go through all weathers in battlefields. At the moment, words are weak to convey the sorrow and sweet, all my heart tells me is, when we get together, I feel paradise.

Words fail to express more the touching and sweet atmosphere overflowed in Elf Online (http://elf.happymmo.com/). It’s also hoped that Elf Online will further its way to a brilliant world with all fans’ supports.

More information about Elf Online please visit http://elf.happymmo.com/
Official forum http://forum.happymmo.com/

Zu Online Secrets Revealed 3

Today we will be continuing our discussion with the Zu team about the new game Zu Online (http://zu.igg.com) from IGG (http://www.igg.com).

While the lush landscape constantly splayed out before players may get all the attention, it is the details that really make this game. It wasn’t enough to simply design a game that feels like it might be somewhere in Asia, the design team wanted to bring a real feeling of culture to Zu. When exploring the world of Zu players will often come across structures unfamiliar to most Westerners, who are used to castles or forts. Whether it’s the sloped, tiled roofs or the wide open courtyards and gardens, the architecture in Zu is designed to be as much a cultural history lesson as a map point or save point.

Knowing that the design team for Zu Online pays such close attention to details, is it any surprise that they would even strive to make Zu easier for players AND their computers? A unique feature that would probably have otherwise gone unnoticed is the seamless map transition. The design team felt that using up RAM on players computers to store different maps would be an unnecessary burden, so they designed their maps to seamlessly transfer from one to the next. No more waiting for the next map to load, while also reducing players computer lag. Now that’s thinking outside the box.

For more information visit the official Zu Online site at: http://zu.igg.com/news/newscon.php?aid=414

EVERQUEST® FRANCHISE ONLINE STRATEGY GAME

DENVER, CO – March 7, 2008 – Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE), the global leader in online gaming, announces today that Inquisitor, the third set for the popular online strategy game Legends of Norrath™ (LoN), is available for purchase via digital download at www.station.com, with localized versions for players in North America, France, Germany and the UK. Based on the legendary MMOs EverQuest® (EQ) and EverQuest® II (EQII), Inquisitor expands upon the immersive Norrathian story arc, high-fantasy art style and thrilling gameplay found at the core of a complete online card gaming experience.

“The development team in Denver is extremely enthusiastic about the new gameplay and artwork that Inquisitor brings to the world of Norrath,” said Scott Martins, Director of Development, SOE-Denver. “With hundreds of new cards and more than 20 new loot items available for both EQ and EQII, the Inquisitor set will enable players to reinforce and expand upon their current strategies for casual play, in single-player scenarios and team-based raids, as well as in competition within any of the three exciting tournament formats, including the Legends of Norrath Championship Series which is set to culminate in Indianapolis, IN at GenCon 2008, with a total prize pool in excess of $100,000!”

For fans of the LoN storyline, Inquisitor’s back story enriches a fluid and compelling gameplay experience, expands upon multiplayer functionality and includes the ability to battle alongside Cyndra the Elven Scout, Eluviel the Dark Priest and other distinguished LoN heroes for the first time!
Developed at SOE’s Denver studio, Legends of Norrath is the only online trading card game based on and playable from within SOE’s popular EverQuest and EverQuest II MMOs, as well as from a free stand-alone client using a free SOE Station Account ID (available at www.station.com). Players can challenge opponents on their game server and across other EQ and EQII servers.

Inquisitor’s features include:

New Strategies and GameplayInquisitor adds over 250 new astonishingly beautiful cards! Get all 210 base set cards, four (4) starter decks featuring sixteen (16) new quests, ten (10) scenario rewards and spectacular new promotional cards. Explore new unit types, legends, keywords and classes for your favorite EQ and EQII classes archetypes, with the introduction of Monks, Enchanters, Inquisitors and Bards!

Test Your Skills in Tournaments
Test your skills in monthly Championship Qualifier Tournaments that feature a first prize valued at approximately $1,500 USD. Win a Championship Qualifier and earn an invitation to the grand finale scheduled to be held at GenCon Indianapolis in August where players will vie for cash and prizes worth more than $100,000 in total. Or, join in on one of the monthly Loot Tournament weekends and receive Loot and Promo Card rewards just for participating!

Mounts, Baubles and Potions Inquisitor features over 20 new loot items each for EverQuest and EverQuest II for your EQ or EQII characters.

Free New Content – SOE is providing all registered users even more free content and bonus features in the game client, including ten (10) new scenarios that tell the tale of Inquisitor and a brand new raid. Sign up now at www.station.com to gain access to these new upgrades.

New Ways to Team Up – New updates to guild functionality including guild chat, guild messaging and the ability to create officers and manage members, allows you to more easily grab your closest friends to take down powerful raid bosses. Inquisitor features a four-player raid where you and three of your friends can take down the Brood of Di’zok – the Royal Family of Sarnaks in the castle of Chardok.
Inquisitor cardswill be available via digital download from SOE’s Station Store in both 58-card digital starter decks for $9.99 (plus any applicable taxes), and 15-card digital booster packs for $2.99 (plus any applicable taxes).
To get started, players can <download the client> for free, test their skills 24 hours a day against AI and real opponents, and then head over to the tournament lobby to compete. Tournament eligibility limited and subject to official rules . Residents of certain territories are ineligible to participate in LoN tournament play.  Please see the <EULA> for details.  For a schedule of events, rules and further details see the <LoN Events Page> or the <LoN Tournaments webpage>. For more information on Legends of Norrath, visit the website at www.legendsofnorrath.com .

Tales of Pirates 1st Anniversary!

The most famous Pirate adventure to ever sail to the far edges of the internet will be turning 1 very soon and the festivities are already being prepared! March 15th will be here before you know it so shake the sand from your hat and wash that salty sea smell from your pantaloons, IGG and TOP (http://top.igg.com) are going to be putting on some fabulous activities to astound and delight! They will be offering three sets of the famed Kylin Armor (Limited Edition), 3 sets of the mysterious Black Dragon Armor, Happy Holiday Magazine, and a series of Demonic World Chests as event rewards. So, come all and celebrate the 1 year mark with IGG and TOP.

IGG and TOP have prepared several events for players:

Kylin Equipment Auction
Kylin Equipment will be added to the Auction Center, so Pirates can use their Credits to bid for them.

Kylin Armor Event
The top 100 players with the highest consumption of Item Mall Cards (From Feb 15th to Mar 31st) will be rewarded with a special "Tales of Pirates 1st Anniversary" gift.

Beginners Leveling Contest
A fantastic contest with big rewards, including the long rumored and much sought after Kylin Armor and Black Dragon Torso among others. In addition, there will be some lucky rewards for players who aren’t lucky enough to find these powerful items.

3X Exp Carnival
The Tales of Pirates team will be holding a Triple Experience Carnival each weekend in March to celebrate TOP’s 1st Anniversary.

For more detail information, please visit here: http://top.igg.com/index.php.

Angels Online: Events for Beginning Players 2

Since the first two events for beginners turned out to be quite successful, IGG today announce they will be holding 2 more events to help beginning players this week, for their newly released game Angels Online which is now at the open beta stage.

Event 1: GM Helps Top Students
Event Contents:
1. After beginning, the GM will wait for all the Little Angels in Training PalaceA1 (161 86).
2. GMs will make a team with four random angels in Training PalaceA1 (161 86) and help them finish the quest.
3. After finishing the quest, GMs will leave the team at once and make a team with another group of four angels.
4. Don’ worry if you haven’t made a team with GM. There is no need to trade with the GM or add him to be your friend during the monster killing. GMs will continually make new teams to meet all the Angels’ needs.
Fore more information please visit us at: http://ao.igg.com/news/news.php?aid=553

Event 2: Impossible is Possible
Event Contents:

1. When the event starts, the GM will announce their location.
2. Each time, the GM will join a party with four angels and help them kill the BOSS they’re having trouble with.
3. When the quest is completed, the GM will leave the party and join another party to help them.
4. The GM will continually join new parties (must have four angels) to help out more angels. But it must be mentioned that trading with the GM and adding the GM to your friends list are not allowed while fighting with BOSSes.
For more information please visit us at: http://ao.igg.com/news/news.php?aid=556

Call of the Kings – Closed Beta Screenshots

NEW SCREENSHOTS FROM STRATEGY MMOG
Call of the Kings – The Mirror Black

New closed beta screenshots are now available at the game site. The online game, Call of the Kings – The Mirror Black, developed by the small independent game developer Gamalocus, has entered the last stages of closed beta testing. The game is a 3D game programmed in Java making it available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh.

Features
Call of the Kings is an online hybrid strategy role-playing game set in a feudal medieval empire. The Imperial Peace is fragile and only held together by an old Emperor who seems to be on the brink of insanity. While the noble players of the realm impatiently await their Emperor’s total mental breakdown, they send fleets of troops and heroes into the colonial frontiers to capture the wealth and political prestige needed to fully prepare them for the coming Battle of the Imperial Throne.

The game has been in closed beta since November 2007.

“Creating a MMOG with a tiny independent team has proven very challenging,” says covert ops director Lars Nielsen. “We ended up creating the game without funding, a 2 man full-time team and the help of friends, students and interns. We are still some way from our full feature milestone, but we are getting there. A BIG thanks to our testers and fans from the old Call of the Warlords who have been a steady supply of encouragement during the last three years.”

“The game caters to both casual gamers with the tick based concept found in many browser strategy games. And at the same time it has the frontier battlefields where the players can spend hours fighting it out in strategy PvP. It runs in real-time, but the RTS element has been applied to diplomacy, espionage, army movement, and civilization improvement instead of the classic tactical troop management and resource gathering of the RTS genre,” says programmer Emanuel Greisen.

Sign up for the beta test at
www.callofthekings.com

Screenshots at
www.callofthekings.com/screenshots.php

Background
The Danish Game Developer Gamalocus was founded in 2001 during the production of the graphical strategy browser game Call of the Warlords. The last three years a small team of dedicated geeks has been working hard to create this new strategy MMOG.
Call of the Kings is programmed in java using the 3D engine jmonkey. The game will be available for PC including the operating systems of Windows, Linux and Macintosh.

If time allows, or if Elf Online is allowed

If time allows, or if Elf Online is allowed

“If time allows, I would relive my childhood.” People always repeat these words besides Elf Online (http://elf.happymmo.com/) when they recall youth and sigh for lost age. Indeed, childhood is the most cherished slice of life in our memory. Playing with peers in the open air or making mischief when adult is absent. All those naughty activities seem forgivable if we look back on for it deserved by the childhood.

We should admit that innocent age will pass and the wave of time will come upon unremittingly. What Elf Online (http://elf.happymmo.com/) can serve is, abridge the dimensional distance to your salad days. Within the time and room created by Elf Online (http://elf.happymmo.com/), people can discharge the longing for childhood and attach more refreshment to our memory. Then, you could enjoy your cake of memory and have it too.

Thank goodness, we still can savor the fragrant memory of childhood.
Thank goodness, we still can play the Elf Online.

More information about Elf Online please visit http://elf.happymmo.com/
Official forum http://forum.happymmo.com/

Magic World Online – Closed Beta Starts on March 9

Have you ever thought about communicating with your in-game teammates face to face? Want to own a multifunctional house that’ll meet your ever changing needs? Getting fed up with the tiring and unnecessary mouse clicking in MMORPG? Spending hundreds of minutes to walk in a map and hoping something like the GPS auto navigation system could be your savior? Now a new concept MMORPG, Magic World Online (MWO), will provide all these exciting features and a hassle-free gaming environment, so what’s the harm to try it out?

After internal debugging, the closed beta client will open for download. The publisher, Ingle Games, will send out closed beta accounts from March 5 and start the CB server on 19:00 (PST) March 9! Are you ready to try it out?

During the first phase of closed beta testing, Ingle Games plan to only recruit 300 gamers,based on the “first come, first serve” principle. If you haven’t received an invitation yet, maybe the information below could help you.

You have two alternatives to sign up for a CB account:

1. Sign up in the forum and leave your username. http://mwobbs.enjoymmo.com/thread-12-1-1.html
2. Visit GM Jane’s Myspace http://www.myspace.com/mwofans, add her as friend or PM her.

For more information, please visit the official website of MWO at http://mwo.enjoymmo.com, or the official forum at http://mwobbs.enjoymmo.com.

NCsoft Europe prepares to launch new European server for Lineage II: The Chaotic Throne

Brighton, England (6th March 2008) – NCsoft® Europe, the world’s leading publisher and developer of online games, will soon be launching a new European server for its hit massively multiplayer online PC game, Lineage® II.

Since its worldwide launch in late 2003, Lineage II has been an unparalleled success, reaching more than 17 million players worldwide and gaining a reputation as the gaming market’s premier player-versus-player (PvP) MMOG. Following the December 2007 launch of Lineage II’s latest expansion, The Kamael, which added a staggering gigabyte’s worth of new content to the game, demand for European server access is running at an all time high as new players rush to join long-time fans. By launching a new server, called Luna, alongside the existing European servers Franz and Teon, NCsoft Europe has quickly moved to ensure continued, instant access and smooth online gameplay for new and current players of Lineage II.

Lineage II is an epic, online fantasy adventure like no other. It offers a dynamic online world, drawn in exquisite detail and populated with wonderfully lush landscapes, intricately sculpted fortresses and beautifully realised characters. Players can storm massive castles, fend off majestic beasts, ride dragons into battle and conquer formidable rival clans as they aim to become part of the Kingdom of Aden’s political and social elite. With the launch of The Kamael players can enjoy an entirely new playable race, a mysterious breed of one winged soldiers with an affinity to dark magic, along with a completely enhanced new player experience that’s helped to introduce thousands of new adventurers to Lineage II’s incredible world.

 “Lineage II is a remarkable game that truly encapsulates the very best that the massively multiplayer online RPG genre has to offer. With its deep, immersive gameplay and thrilling player Vs player combat the demand for server access across Europe continues to be incredible.” said Mirko Gozzo, Lineage II product manager at NCsoft Europe. “We’re delighted to be launching a brand new European server for a game that continues to go from strength to strength.”
NCsoft expects the new Lineage II server, Luna, to launch at the end of April.

The standard edition box of Lineage II: The Kamael is available now at major retailers at a recommended retail price of £14.99 / €19.99 and at the PlayNC® store (http://eu.plaync.com/eu/store/). The game includes a 15 day time card in addition to the standard 30 days play; giving players a total of 45 days play time. Monthly subscription fee to the game is £8.99 / €12.99. The game is rated 12+ by PEGI (www.pegi.info). For more information please visit www.discoverlineage2.com